Brain development and diet

[Guest guest]

Enriching diet is a natural rawfoodist

preoccupation, but there are some prejudices which should be

given perspective if mental and dietary clarity are to

be enjoyed.<br><br>If eating meat expand brains them

Tyrannasaurus Rex and lions wold be top of the pile. Those who

think that the human skill of breaking bones, to get

the marrow out, aided brain developement should watch

what a dog does to a bone. Those academic pundits that

say cooking vegetables also caused a quantum leap in

brain size due to this concentrated food source, have

failed to understand the basic requirement for brain

development. Quelle suprise - thinking. Getting on to two feet

takes an exponential extra amount of brain space over a

four feet stance. Investing two or three million years

in speech developement, tool skills etc also puts

extra grey cells in the head. There are few areas in

human discussion where greater ingenuity is shown than

in the justification for continuing SAP. My doctor

who is way above Mensa entry level, highly educated,

of the highest integrity has advised against going

100% raw on the grounds that too many stomache upsets

will result. 60-70% raw is the

counsel.<br><br>Returning to the treetops, the leaves are my preoccupation.

I hear that monkeys of the Amazon eat a lot of

toxic leaves and are consequently forced to descend to

the ground risking life on the menus of jaguars and

pythons, to eat clay to dissipate the toxins! With so many

rich leaves in the jungle to eat and millions of

years, why such a diet? Do I hit a note in thinking that

the next big staple should come out of the

canopy?<br><br>Stuck as I am outside the lush jungle, how should I

approach the clearly vital leafy need? I go for leaves as

dark green as I can get,but I ponder the wisdom of

descending from the trees. <br><br>Those great trees that

draw minerals from deep and far into the ground,

braking stones over the years to draw their nourishment,

must have secrets yet to be revealed. The spinach and

French " salads " , I eat have to be a poor relatives of

the rich splendours of the jungle about which I know

zilch and even the best of us has little to say. If

anyone can help me to get foliage out of plants higher

than three feet, I will be most grateful.<br><br>Peter

Gardiner.<br><br>PS Fruit and nuts I eat from trees. It is the leaves

that tempt me.

[Guest guest]

One way that we get nutreints (colodial minerals)

from deep in the soil, is from the leaves that fall

from giant trees that decompose on top of the gound

contibuting to the layers of rich top soil. We can then get

the nutrients from small plants grown on that

soil.<br><br>We have these big Oak trees in our court yards. The

leaves that fall from them each year are as big as

plates, and the ones that fall onto our patio, we just

throw out with the trash. Most of the leaves fall in

the courtyard, and I don't now what the gardeners do

with them after they gather them up. Oh to have a

garden to make compost out of these nutrient rich leaves

that fall from those large trees with roots deep in

the ground fed by microrganism that gather up the

rich minerals from the earth.

[Guest guest]

I meant to say microoroganisms.<br><br>I recently

bacame aware that the soil must be alive with these tiny

microbs that feed the roots of plants. Feed the micobs

and you have healthy disease free plants.

[Guest guest]

Yes Peter, we live in a world so dominated with

meat eating, that they can not imagine anything else.

Someone once said if you live your life as a hammer, you

will see every problem as a nail. I always love the

reaction of people, when I tell them I'm a raw foodist.

One guy looked at me for a moment and said " You still

eat cheese burgers don't you? " . After telling a

collage educated lady just two days ago, that I was raw

vegan she said; " Well at least you can still eat Ice

Cream " . Try it on your friends. Very few know the

differance between animal products and plants, or between

cooked and raw.<br><br>Doug<br><br>Doug